Message from the Editor
Well, our Editor-in-Chief Aurélien is enjoying the pastoral countryside (I'm just making that up) of his native France this Christmas and New Year's, so the laborious task of writing an Editor's message to be read by the teeming multitudes (give or take) falls to me, mere web editor (but with a heart of gold).
So most pressingly I need to apologize for the proliferation of parenthesis (like this (see?)) resulting from letting a techie write prose. And while I'm on the subject of apologizing, let me add Atago Shrine's Akutai Matsuri that we mentioned in last month's Editor's message. Through an intersection of unfortunate circumstances, none of us were able to attend and report on the happenings there. But please look foward to a juicy February update, while staying warm!
And now without further ado, let me present a faux (look I'm using French) Editor's message from Aurélien, actually by me via Babelfish
English->French->English, because I miss him that much.
Hello, it is me, Aurelien, of France. Since I, Aurelien, am in France, I naturally eat a good number of French bread and drinkable wine. Although I, that AM Aurelien, really do not like the stereotype of French eating only French bread and drinking wine. We have large films, too! I hope that Jonathan does not send to butchery the message of my writer too much. But I am French, thus I will not worry about it.
New articles for January 2007
- January 2007 events at a glance
- Making kadomatsu and more - A traditional New Year's decoration
Voices from the archives (recently resurrected articles from the paper Ibaraki Report)
- The Konyaku Spirit - A legend of Tenri, Nara
- The Calling Hand - A mid-night apparition
- The Dream Spirit - A surprising spirit
- The Ema Spirit - A helpful ghost
- Calligrapher knows where to draw the line - Introduction of an accomplished calligrapher from the International Affairs Division